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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... the audio here is genuinely jaw-dropping in the context of repeated claims from Polanski that the Sun interview was entrapment in which he was baited into saying things he didn't believe
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
One of the weirder social media habits that has definitely travelled across from Twitter is people treating social media posts as if they're equivalent to articles, and involve the same amount of work, prep, thought, and so on. It feels telling of *something*, but I've no idea what.
The impulse to become invested and take sides is not merely normal: it’s one elevated by being the sort of person prone to arguing about such things on the internet. We define our “us” in opposition to “them”.
Always a fan of when you write about le Carré
Drinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - wrote a thing about booze in the novels of John Le Carre. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/whisky-bus...
The Reverend And The Makers bloke followed me because I'd mentioned his most popular song in a tweet, then he realised it was in reply to a post asking "what's the worst song of all time?" so he unfollowed me, insulted me, then blocked me.
Now they steal not just your words, but your public identity. Stealing everything not nailed down.
This is kind of brilliant because it leans into the idea that what Gen AI is good at is creating stuff which is bullshit to begin with (focus groups are less about consulting people for true input and more about outsourcing accountability and you can no doubt do this cheaper with digital people)
Where's a good place to start reading Patricia Highsmith? I've never read any but have liked some adaptations
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
I still think about this a lot.
Popped over to Twitter. First thing I saw was an AI video posted by Jeremy Clarkson of him beating up Keir Starmer in front of a baying mob. In case you were wondering how things are going over there.
No worries! Loved the book
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
the thought occurs that Charles Guiteau wouldn't need to shoot the president today because Trump would simply have made him secretary of defence
A grid listing the actors playing recurring characters in Jeeves & Wooster across its 4 series. Many characters are played by multiple actors. Some by a different actor for every series.
They really got through actors on Jeeves & Wooster, didn’t they?
Makes the whirlwind of aunts, suitors & Drones Club members even more bewildering. I particularly like when the first of three Madelines turns up as the second Florence.
“Shipping will be back to normal in a week”
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
it's spelt 'OLLIEwood'
Yet again the noble Keir Starmer is going to have to distance himself from the words of his arch-nemesis, the nefarious Keir Starmer.
This is why I very politely aim for almost zero success, so none of you have to see my face
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
I’ve been singing this all day
I feel some incumbent governments are due an earth-shatteringly enormous “never thought they’d eat MY face” with the AI companies that have decided to bet the future on!
I wonder if this u-turn is being reported as breathlessly by Chris Mason as it would be were it regarding Keir Starmer.
On this day 150 years ago, a young Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell, shouted into a metal cone attached to a wire that ran to the next room, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want you.” His colleague, Thomas Watson, heard and came running.
He had no name for this contraption, but we call it a #telephone.
Here are 32 experts in the field of ADHD saying that Health Secretary Wes Streeting is talking bunk.
You really have to wonder where Streeting gets his lunatic ideas?
Thirty-two experts find no evidence ADHD is being overdiagnosed www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
